Natasa is a philosopher of media, communication and technology in education and an international leader in visual and multimodal approahes/methods in higher education. Notably, she has been developing multiple literacies (e.g. media/sustainability/postdigital/creative youth mental health/employability literacies), relational and sociomaterial approaches to education and teaching. She has also developed a critical visual semiotic approach to education and general communication.  

Two recent monographs (Inquiry Graphics in Higher Education, 2020, Palgrave McMillan) and (Relational and Multimodal Higher Education, co-written with A. Olteanu, 2024, Routledge) present holistic outcomes of the above mentioned developments. 

Notably, she has been developing methods and theoretical perspectives to bridging persistent dualisms in education, such as "image-concept", "concrete-abstract", "us-them" and "mind-body" in tackling pressing social, representational, and environmental crises. her work also aims to enhance analytical, creative, and transformative thinking on a variety of important educational topics in teaching-learning interactions and research. 

Overall, she is an inter(cross-)disciplinary scholar who resists defining herself through looking into only one area or topic. If she was to position herself in a field or discipline, this would be a challenge, as there is always more than one to list: semiotics, media and communication, educational philosophy, visual arts, sociomaterialism. 

I am interested in supervising students whose interests relate to visual, material and digital culture/research/pedagogy, multimodality, semiotics in education, socio-materiality, social justice/critical theory and critical media literacy. Areas of interest include critical approachers to graduate employability, teaching-learning designs, student empowerment, art-based methods and post-truth/humanism/digital.

I am a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

In my research, I am working on advancing our understanding of the role of embodiment, materiality (in both physical and digital representation form), images, art and artefacts in education and society. Passionate about matters of social justice, innovation, interdisciplinarity and relational ontology. 

At Lancaster University, I am currently:
•       a co-Director of Social Futures Centre, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FASS)

• PhD module Leader: I teach on the online Doctoral Programme in Higher Education Research, Evaluation and Enhancement (HEREE) and I lead the module ED.S842: "Enhancing Learning Teaching and Assessment".
• MA module Leader: I lead a module Ed.S836 "Policies, Ideologies and Interventions in Education" for all students on the departmental online masters programmes.
• I also teach face to face on the residential programme in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL).

• Co-Editor, Video Journal of Educational Pedagogy, Brill 
• Editorial Board, the Postdigital Science and Education journal, Springer.
• Executive Committee (rep. Great Britain): International Association of Semioitc Studies (IASS) 
• External Advisor, International Association of Visual Pedagogies
• Research Associate, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade
• Advisory Board (Why Still Education? International Confernece)

Designer, co-ordinator, leader and copy right owner of the Lancaster University's interdisciplinary hub GNC ReOPeN web page, Graphic Novels and Comics Research, Outreach, Pedagogy (and Engagement) Network.

I have had more than 17 years of experience working in the field of Education, and more than 10 years working in the field of Higher Education.

I began work as Lecturer at Lancaster University in September 2014. Prior to that, I worked at the University of Nottingham as doctoral researcher (PhD) and Research Assistant/Fellow, where I completed my PhD in 2014, having been awarded a Visual Learning Lab and the Learning Sciences Research Institute Fellowship. 

I was a European Council Erasmus Mundus Fellow at the UCL/Institute of Education, London (UK), where I graduated from an international MA degree in Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management in 2010.